Comic strip for Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

There have been many Romeo and Juliet translations in modern English text, but few have dared approach the subject matter in quite the same bold, bawdy, post-modern manner as Juliet and Her Romeo in the New Millennium. We've added our own modern twist to the Romeo and Juliet script, minus the famous love quotes and poems but with the addition of bawdy rhyme and comedic timing. Savor the dialogue below:

Juliet

Oh Romeo, wouldst thou leave me with my pony on the go? For if thou did I'd be obliged to slap it. And t'would never be exactly comme il faut, Indeed, I'd be constrained to handicap it.

Romeo

Racy girl, full dressage would lead to insufficient woe, A prematurely consummated plot because I lingered. Pray, cool down till I remount incognito, And be content with fervid equus fingered.

Juliet

Flaccid pilgrim, thou wouldst leave me here in vaginated toil, All wanting and askew, a panting ingenue, To work myself into an artless broil, Akin to hand-stretched, frothied Montagues!

Romeo

Ah Juliet, it ne'er occurred to me in fondest reverie, That even spirited mares not beg for intermission. Aye, countless swindled maids must be'n recorded history, Encumbered and unsated by so minuscule a seat of acquisition.

Juliet

Cockered boy, do not peter out on me in phallic bonhomie, For as you rise to empathize the nightingale doth sing, Which yet leaves time for lusty-thrusted spirited activity, By thine uplifted night bird fully...cocked...in wanton caroling.

Romeo

Hollow night bird, tis not the nightingale you hear, But the prudent owl who know'st when to rest, Too wise to let us our own plot besmear, By labile minored pleas effused from being penisless.

Juliet

Aye, pleas as soundless as thy hoots for venerated plots, Whilst nightingales give way to cranky larks, Who spend long sterile days tied up in knots, Unsparked by dickering, stage-struck patriarchs.

Romeo

Poor stunted ears mistake the nagging screech of larks, For the gloried matinals of noble roosters, Whose fertile-throated calls ne'er fail to mark, The bawdy barnyard mien of great producers.

Juliet

Alack, the pitied gait of limpest boosters, Fixed on long-winded plots but weakly proffered, By err-brained Montagues who would be roosters, Yet end stage-roasted capons, fully Stoppard.

Romeo

Oh shamèd stable girl, thou wouldst malign, The noble-spirited clan of Montagues, Who even in high hubris would incline, To tender vulvaed Capulets sweet-tongued coos.

Juliet

Hence bid to drink vile potions by a hasty-witted friar, Then enter stage-struck Romeo fully blindered, Who doth belie stilled Juliet consumed in wishful ire, For his scene-stealing heart at full tilt daggered!

Romeo

Oh sacrilege! Thou wouldst impale my loving heart, For crimson lips and cheeks so fair in everlasting rest, Embraced in dateless bargain, never to depart Our own dim nightèd palace ever blest.

Juliet

So quick forgotten thy dispatch of Paris, Whilst on thy whiny pilgrimage to me, Hence mewling over Tybalt in frozen animus, And none of it for me but all for thee!

Romeo

Oh woe is me! Thou speak'st not as Juliet, Now lost most lovèd night bird, No greater beauty nature could'st beget, No sound more lovely in a single word.

Juliet

Nay Romeo, thy self-love played to me as purest love, Doth come from fawning boys too blind to see, That plots which play as wars can not be love, That horses as would plots run loving free.

(Romeo makes a silent plea)

Juliet

Long winded boy, alight. Save thy hackneyed story line, For trophied concubines best served supine, Akin to hollow-brainèd Rosaline..

Answer 2

Excepting possibly something like (Classics Illustrated), i doubt this has ever been done. for one thing the plot is unavoidably Tragic, is about gangsterism, and is not intended for kids- double suicide is a horrible denouement ( end strategy so to speak), It would not sell- there are things like Monarch Notes, (Trots) condensed analyses of this and other Shakespearean works- but not comic books. Julius Caesar- as that was a sort of War Drama- was adapted to Comic book form- with little historical accuracy as Dr. Wertham lamented- he said Caesar and Brutus talked more like Captain Marvel than Shakespeareanized Romans.

Answer 3

The nurse is a great source of comic relief in general, but here is an exact quote from the play.

NURSE: "I'll lay fourteen of my teeth-and yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four-she is not fourteen. How long is it now to Lammastide?"

(Modern translation)

I'd bet fourteen of my own teeth-but, I'm sorry to say, I only have four teeth-she's not fourteen. How long is it until Lammastide?

The nurse is definitely a great source of comic relief throughout the play, kind of a behind-the-scenes character that knew a lot about what occurred when she was a seemingly lower-class and insignificant character, however. The idea that sometimes the most unlikely knows the most was definitely an intertwined aspect in the concept of the play, integrated purposely by Shakespeare himself.